{"id":23427,"date":"2015-12-15T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/?p=23427"},"modified":"2015-12-15T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:14:02","slug":"magic-managing-air-in-green-inner-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/magic-managing-air-in-green-inner-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGIC"},"content":{"rendered":"
AIM: The MAGIC Project is an EPSRC funded project, run as a joint collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge, Surrey and Imperial College London, supported by a number of industrial partners. The project aims to contribute towards answering the Grand Challenge question: Can we develop a city with no air pollution and no heat-island effect by 2050?<\/p>\n
Traditional approaches to urban environmental control rely on energy-consuming and carbon\/toxin producing heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) systems, which produce an unsustainable cycle of increasing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of MAGIC is to break this vicious cycle by employing a different engineering solution, which uses green and blue spaces coupled with natural ventilation in buildings to reduce demand for energy and ensure air pollutants are diluted below levels that cause adverse health effects.<\/p>\n
An integrated suite of computer models and associated management and decision support tools that allows the city design to operate as its own natural HVAC system:<\/p>\n
Policy makers and planners will receive clear research-lead information regarding the re-engineering and refurbishment of buildings at city scale, resilient to climate conditions.<\/p>\n
Industrial players will receive clear guidance to inform building (re-)design plans, ensuring resilience towards climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The MAGIC project aim is to answer the question: can we develop a city with no air pollution and no heat-island effect by 2050?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[36,44,50,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}